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Dying Athletes, CoQ10, Meat & Health

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Dying Athletes, CoQ10, Meat & Health

In This Issue: 

  • Why Are Athletes Dying?
  • Make Your Own CoQ10
  • What Happens When You Kick the Meat?

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prevent heart diseaseMessage from Bernadette Wulf

Happy Imbolc or Brigid’s Day!

It’s the first day of Spring in the Celtic calendar and I’m celebrating with a Zoom workshop this coming Saturday.

Check it out here if you are interested and join the fun – https://www.celticmysteryschool.com/imbolc-ritual-with-brigid/

This month we take a look at the recent rash of sudden deaths in athletes, how your health improves when you ditch the meat and a fascinating short video from Dr. Greger on creating your own CoQ10.

As synchronicity would have it, all these articles are related to heart health, which is just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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Bernadette Wulf

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Why Are Athletes Dying?

Athletes dying - why?Here’s a great article on the recent strange uptick in athletes dying of heart failure and blood clots.

Just one of several reasons listed is excessive fats in the diet. The “healthy fats” craze has gone way overboard and people are loading up on fats like I’ve never seen before.

Of course we do need some fats – particularly omega 3 and omega 6. Those are the only fats we actually need. Read about Good Fats – Bad Fats.

These omega fatty acids are widely available in leafy greens, whole grains, nuts and seeds in varying amounts. In fact, we never need to eat any concentrated sources of these fats, like oils or nut butters, because there are plenty available in whole foods – even low fat whole foods.

If you are concerned about meeting your needs, plug your daily foods into cronometer.com and adjust your diet accordingly.

From muneezaahmed.com:

An overabundance of fat in the diet causes the liver to work harder and weaken over time. Fats also thicken the blood, creating high blood pressure as the heart works extra hard to suction thick blood through our veins and arteries. Insulin resistance results from fats coating arterial walls, which prevents critical life-giving glucose and other essential nutrients from entering cells through the bloodstream. The pancreas suffers as a result, contributing to diabetes.

Canola oil is like battery acid on the inside of your arteries. It creates significant vascular damage. And high blood fat leads to greater acidity in the body since fats are acidic (“fatty acids”). When this high-acid environment is combined with dehydration, stress, high salt intake, and scar tissue in the brain from toxins like heavy metals and MSG, stroke can occur.

[Excess acids also cause loss of alkaline minerals from the bones, leading to osteoporosis. – Ed.]

This is especially true when viral pathogens are present, even in a mild form, including COVID [including the vax – Ed.] and the flu. Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and mild strokes are often early signs that fats, toxins, and viral waste are building up and clogging blood vessels.

Toxins and pathogens are also listed in the article, but the easiest factor to control, starting immediately, is cutting back on fats.

If you have heart problems, leading experts like Dr. Esselstyn recommend keeping fats to about 10% of your daily calories.

That can feel very low when you put it into practice. I try to keep my fats low, but I usually end up with more like 15 to 20% fats in my diet, which is fine for those of us with healthy hearts.

You’ve probably heard that sugar is the big bad guy, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend eating refined sugar, but sugars only become a problem when excess fats cause insulin resistance. For more on that huge topic, look into the work of Dr. Neal Barnard.

​​​​​​​Read more about the cause of sudden death of athletes –  – https://muneezaahmed.com/another-athlete-down-why-are-their-hearts-giving-out/

Make Your Own CoQ10

About 6 minutes in, Dr. Greger talks about how we can make our own CoQ10 if we eat leafy green vegetables and expose our skin to the sun. Very cool!

Make your own CoQ10


Watch the video here – https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-regenerate-coenzyme-q10-coq10-naturally/

What Happens When You Kick the Meat?

What happens when you stop eating meat

Have you been on the fence about getting the meat out of your diet?

You’ve probably heard that cutting back on meat will help prevent climate change and massive amounts of pollution from factory farms.

And it’s obvious that it would spare a lot of animals from a life of misery. But did you know that it will also improve your health in several ways?

Here are seven improvements you can expect from a switch to a vegetarian diet.

From Forks Over Knives:

  1. REDUCE INFLAMMATION IN YOUR BODY.
  2. YOUR BLOOD CHOLESTEROL LEVELS WILL PLUMMET.
  3. YOU’LL GIVE YOUR MICROBIOME A MAKEOVER.
  4. YOU’LL CHANGE HOW YOUR GENES WORK.
  5. YOU’LL DRAMATICALLY REDUCE YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING TYPE 2 DIABETES.
  6. YOU’LL GET THE RIGHT AMOUNT—AND THE RIGHT TYPE—OF PROTEIN.
  7. YOU’LL MAKE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH OF OUR PLANET AND ITS INHABITANTS.

Read the entire article for the explanation of how it all works – https://www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/7-things-that-happen-when-you-stop-eating-meat/